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| Getting Started | |
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| Exploring the Writing Process | |
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| The Writing Process | |
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| Subject, Audience, and Purpose | |
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| Prewriting to Generate Ideas | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| Brainstorming | |
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| Clustering | |
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| Asking Questions | |
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| Keeping a Journal | |
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| Unit 1 Writers' Workshop: Using One or Two of Your Five Senses, Describe a Place | |
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| Discovering the Paragraph | |
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| The Process of Writing Paragraphs | |
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| Defining and Looking at the Paragraph | |
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| Narrowing the Topic and Writing the Topic Sentence | |
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| Generating Ideas for the Body | |
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| Selecting and Dropping Ideas | |
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| Arranging Ideas in a Plan or an Outline | |
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| Writing and Revising the Paragraph | |
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| Achieving Coherence | |
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| Coherence Through Order | |
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| Coherence Through Related Sentences | |
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| Unit 2 Writers' Workshop: Discuss the Pressures of Living in Two Worlds | |
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| Developing the Paragraphs | |
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| Illustration | |
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| Thinking and Writing Together | |
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| Checklist: The Process of Writing an Illustration Paragraph | |
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| Suggested Topic Sentences for Illustration Paragraphs | |
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| Narration | |
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| Thinking and Writing Together | |
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| Checklist: The Process of Writing a Narrative Paragraph | |
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| Suggested Topics for Narrative Paragraphs | |
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| Description | |
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| Thinking and Writing Together | |
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| Checklist: The Process of Writing a Descriptive Paragraph | |
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| Suggested Topics for Descriptive Paragraphs | |
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| Process | |
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| Thinking and Writing Together | |
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| Checklist: The Process of Writing a Process Paragraph | |
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| Suggested Topics for Process Paragraphs | |
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| Definition | |
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| Single-Sentence Definitions | |
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| The Definition Paragraph | |
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| Thinking and Writing Together | |
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| Checklist: The Process of Writing a Definition Paragraph | |
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| Suggested Topics for Definition Paragraphs | |
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| Comparison and Contrast | |
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| The Contrast and the Comparison Paragraphs | |
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| Thinking and Writing Together | |
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| Checklist: The Process of Writing a Comparison or Contrast Paragraph | |
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| Suggested Topics for Contrast or Comparison Paragraphs | |
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| The Comparison and Contrast Paragraph | |
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| Suggested Topics for Comparison and Contrast Paragraphs | |
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| Classification | |
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| Thinking and Writing Together | |
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| Checklist: The Process of Writing a Classification Paragraph | |
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| Suggested Topics for Classification Paragraphs | |
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| Cause and Effect | |
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| Thinking and Writing Together | |
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| Checklist: The Process of Writing a Cause and Effect Paragraph | |
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| Suggested Topics for Cause and Effect Paragraphs | |
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| Persuasion | |
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| Thinking and Writing Together | |
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| Checklist: The Process of Writing a Persuasive Paragraph | |
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| Suggested Topics for Persuasive Paragraphs | |
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| Unit 3 Writers' Workshop: Give Advice to College Writers | |
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| Writing the Essay | |
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| The Process of Writing an Essay | |
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| Looking at the Essay | |
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| Writing the Thesis Statement | |
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| Generating Ideas for the Body | |
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| Organizing Ideas into an Outline | |
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| Ordering and Linking Paragraphs in the Essay | |
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| Writing and Revising Essays | |
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| Checklist: The Process of Writing an Essay | |
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| Suggested Topics for Essays | |
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| The Introduction, the Conclusion, and the Title | |
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| The Introduction | |
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| The Conclusion | |
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| The Title | |
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| Types of Essays | |
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| TheIllustration Essay | |
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| Student Essays | |
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| Critical Thinking and Viewing: Illustration | |
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| Planning and Writing the Illustration Essay | |
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| The Narrative Essay | |
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| Student Essays | |
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| Critical Thinking and Viewing: Narration | |
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| Planning and Writing the Narrative Essay | |
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| The Descriptive Essay | |
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| Student Essays | |
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| Critical Thinking and Viewing: Description | |
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| Planning and Writing the Descriptive Essay | |
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| The Process Essay | |
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| Student Essays | |
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| Critical Thinking and Viewing: Process | |
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| Planning and Writing the Process Essay | |
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| The Definition Essay | |
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| Student Essays | |
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| Critical Thinking and Viewing: Definition | |
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| Planning and Writing the Definition Essay | |
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| Types of Essays | |
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| The Comparison and the Contrast Essay | |
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| Student Essays | |
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| Critical Thinking and Viewing: Comparison Contrast | |
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| Planning and Writing the Comparison and the Contrast Essay | |
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| The Classification Essay | |
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| Student Essays | |
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| Critical Thinking and Viewing: Classification | |
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| Planning and Writing the Classification Essay | |
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| The Cause and Effect Essay | |
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| Student Essays | |
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| Critical Thinking and Viewing: Cause and Effect | |
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| Planning and Writing the Cause and Effect Essay | |
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| The Persuasive Essay | |
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| Student Essays | |
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| Critical Thinking and Viewing: Persuasion | |
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| Planning and Writing the Persuasive Essay | |
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| Summarizing, Quoting, and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Writing a Summary | |
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| Checklist: The Process of Writing a Summary | |
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| Using Direct and Indirect Quotation | |
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| Strengthening an Essay with Research | |
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| Improving an Essay with Research | |
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| Finding and Evaluating Outside Sources: Library and Internet | |
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| Adding Sources to Your Essay and Documenting Them Correctly | |
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| Writing Under Pressure: The Essay Examination | |
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| Budgeting Your Time | |
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| Reading and Understanding the Essay Question | |
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| Choosing the Correct Paragraph or Essay Pattern | |
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| Writing the Topic Sentence or the Thesis Statement | |
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| Checklist: The Process of Answering an Essay Question | |
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| Unit 4 Writers' Workshop: Analyze a Social Problem | |
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| Improving Your Writing | |
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| Revising for Consistency and Parallelism | |
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| Consistent Tense | |
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| Consistent Number and Person | |
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| Parallelism | |
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| Revising for Sentence Variety | |
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| Mix Long and Short Sentences | |
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| Use a Question, a Command, or an Exclamation | |
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| Vary the Beginnings of Sentences | |
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| Vary Methods of Joining Ideas | |
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| Avoid Misplaced and Confusing Modifiers | |
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| Review and Practice | |
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| Revising for Language Awareness | |
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| Exact Language: Avoiding Vagueness | |
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| Concise Language: Avoiding Wordiness | |
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| Fresh Language: Avoiding Triteness | |
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| Figurative Language: Similes and Metaphors | |
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| Putting Your Revision Skills to Work | |
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| Unit 5 Writers' Workshop: Examine Something That Isn't What It Appears to Be | |
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| Reviewing the Basics | |
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| The Simple Sentence | |
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| Defining and Spotting Subjects | |
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| Spotting Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Defining and Spotting Verbs | |
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| Coordination and Subordination | |
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| Coordination | |
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| Subordination | |
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| Semicolons | |
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| Conjunctive Adverbs | |
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| Review | |
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| Avoiding Sentence Errors | |
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| Avoiding Run-Ons and Comma Splices | |
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| Avoiding Fragments | |
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| Present Tense (Agreement) | |
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| Defining Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Three Troublesome Verbs in the Present Tense: To Be, To Have, To Do | |
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| Special Singular Constructions | |
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| Separation of Subject and Verb | |
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| Sentences Beginning with There and Here | |
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| Agreement in Questions | |
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| Agreement in Relative Clauses | |
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| Past Tense | |
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| Regular Verbs in the Past Tense | |
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| Irregular Verbs in the Past Tense | |
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| A Troublesome Verb in the Past Tense: To Be | |
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| Troublesome Pairs in the Past Tense: Can/Could, Will/Would | |
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| The Past Participle | |
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| Past Participles of Regular Verbs | |
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| Past Participles of Irregular Verbs | |
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| Using the Present Perfect Tense | |
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| Using the Past Perfect Tense | |
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| Using the Passive Voice (To Be and the Past Participle) | |
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| Using the Past Participle as an Adjective | |
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| Nouns | |
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| Defining Singular and Plural | |
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| Signal Words: Singular and Plural | |
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| Signal Words with of | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Defining Pronouns and Antecedents | |
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| Making Pronouns and Antecedents Agree | |
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| Referring to Antecedents Clearly | |
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| Special Problems of Case | |
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| Using Pronouns with -self and -selves | |
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| Prepositions | |
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| Working with Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Prepositions in Common Expressions | |
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| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Defining and Using Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| The Comparative and the Superlative | |
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| A Troublesome Pair: Good/Well | |
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| The Apostrophe | |
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| The Apostrophe for Contractions | |
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| The Apostrophe for Ownership | |
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| Special Uses of the Apostrophe | |
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| The Comma | |
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| Commas for Items in a Series | |
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| Commas with Introductory Phrases, Transitional Expressions, and Parentheticals | |
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| Commas for Appositives | |
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| Commas with Nonrestrictive and Restrictive Clauses | |
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| Commas for Dates and Addresses | |
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| Minor Uses of the Comma | |
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| Mechanics | |
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| Capitalization | |
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| Titles | |
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| Direct Quotations | |
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| Minor Marks of Punctuation | |
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| Putting Your Proofreading Skills to Work | |
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| Unit 6 Writers' Workshop: Adopt a New Point of View | |
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| Strengthening Your Spelling | |
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| Spelling | |
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| Suggestions for Improving Your Spelling. | |
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| Computer Spell Checkers | |
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| Spotting Vowels and Consonants | |
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| Doubling the Final Consonant (in Words of One Syllable) | |
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| Doubling the Final Consonant (in Words of More Than One Syllable) | |
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| Dropping or Keeping the Final E | |
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| Changing or Keeping the Final Y | |
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| Adding -S or -ES | |
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| Choosing IE or EI | |
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| Spelling Lists | |
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| Look-Alikes/Sound-Alikes | |
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| Unit 7 Writers' Workshop: Discuss a Time When You Felt Blessed | |
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| Reading Selections | |
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| Reading Strategies for Writers | |
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| How Sunglasses Spanned the World | |
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| Hunger | |
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| The Flip Side of Internet Fame | |
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| A Brother's Murder | |
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| Dear Dads: Save Your Sons | |
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| Only Daughter | |
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| Good Grammar Gets the Girl | |
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| A Risk-Free Life | |
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| When Greed Gives Way to Giving | |
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| Two Ways to Belong in America | |
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| Cell Yell: Thanks for (Not) Sharing | |
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| Driving While Stupid | |
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| Book War | |
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| Four Types of Courage | |
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| On the Rez | |
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| Why the M Word Matters to Me | |
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| The Case for Torture | |
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| Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self | |
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| Quotation Bank | |
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| Appendix: Some Guidelines for Students of English as a Second Language | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Index | |
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| Rhetorical Index | |